Sunday, September 25, 2011

A not-so-funny college bake sale, though I am sure Rush and his local mini-clones will slap the kids on the back:

-- Campus Republicans at the University of California Berkeley have
cooked up a storm of controversy with their plans for a bake sale.

But it's not your everyday collegiate fundraiser they've got in mind.
They've developed a sliding scale where the price of the cookie or
brownie depends on your gender and the color of your skin.

During the sale, scheduled for Tuesday, baked goods will be sold to
white men for $2.00, Asian men for $1.50, Latino men for $1.00, black
men for $0.75 and Native American men for $0.25. All women will get
$0.25 off those prices.

"The pricing structure is there to bring attention, to cause people
to get a little upset," Campus Republican President Shawn Lewis, who
planned the event, told CNN-affiliate KGO. "But it's really there to
cause people to think more critically about what this kind of policy
would do in university admissions."

Lewis says it's a way to make a statement about pending legislation
that would let the California universities consider race or national
origin during the admission process.

But the young Republicans have been on the receiving end of a fierce
backlash. Reaction has been so negative they've been forced to cancel
their customary lunchtime tabling duties, according to KGO.

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